The referendum for Scottish independence from the UK has once more opened up the question of the relationship between the government in Westminster and the English regions. Whilst the coalition government focus on the ...

In postcolonial states reconciliation processes can be understood as civic forums in which the suffering inflicted upon certain identity groups as a result of misrecognition are adjudicated and addressed. Reconciliation ...

The case studies revealed that the constitutional nature of a multi-level system indeed shapes its modes of day-to-day intergovernmental coordination and, with it, the way competences are (re)allocated in the longer term. ...

Since 11 September 2001, the ‘Muslim world’ has become a novel religio-culturally defined civilisational frame of reference around which American foreign policy has been partly reoriented and reorganised. In parallel, the ...

Organic farming has experienced considerable growth in recent years. Proponents of organic farming point
to the environmental and nutritional benefits of organic systems, although these are contested by some.
More recently, ...

The political control of the bureaucracy is a major theme in public administration scholarship, particularly in delegation theory. There is a wide range of policy instruments suitable for the purpose of control. In practice, ...

The political control of the bureaucracy is a major theme in public administration scholarship, particularly in delegation theory. There is a wide range of policy instruments suitable for the purpose of control. In practice, ...

This article – based on data that employs interviews conducted with British Army personnel – adopts a social theory of learning in order to examine how both formal and informal learning systems have affected organizational ...

Misreporting is a problem that plagues researchers who use survey data. In this article, we develop a parametric model that corrects for misclassified binary responses using information on the misreporting patterns obtained ...

Misreporting is a problem that plagues researchers who use survey data. In this article, we develop a parametric model that corrects for misclassified binary responses using information on the misreporting patterns obtained ...

To a great extent, ancient Near Eastern international relations operated within
covenantal frameworks. In light of renewed interest in world history and the Near
East in the discipline of International Relations, this ...

We investigate the lifespan and risk of termination of 723 arm’s length agencies in the United Kingdom between 1985 and 2008, an under investigated question in parliamentary systems. We hypothesise that termination risk ...

The link between government performance and support for incumbents is a key mechanism of accountable government. We model vote share of incumbent administrations in local government as proportional and non-proportional ...

This article examines the way in which Albert Weale's procedural account of democratic justice understands: (1) the boundaries of the democratic social contract, in terms of who is included or excluded from the contract; ...

Has immigration been securitised at the EU level? The question has been hotly discussed, but no consensus has been reached. This article claims that two shortcomings – one methodological, one theoretical – in the empirical ...

Friendship distributes critical benefits across society and does so unequally. Income, levels of education and health vary dramatically according to the quality of individuals' friendships. Further, friendships shape the ...

We evaluate a theory of the effects of publishing performance information on citizens' collective voice to local providers about public service performance and the perceptions and attitudes that influence their voice. Field ...

The article addresses one facet of the representation puzzle, namely substantive minority representation in the UK House of Commons. It examines if a religious Jewish and Muslim minority background stimulates politicians ...

Observational data are routinely used in both quantitative and qualitative public management research. They can be used to study a broad range of research questions. However, it is often challenging to draw causal conclusions ...